本教材自2015年由高等教育出版社出版以来，在全国高校得到广泛使用，受到好评，并于2021年获评“2020年山东省普通高等教育一流教材”。为了更好地服务国家发展战略，满足新时代外语人才培养的需要，我们对教材进行了修订，调整了单元框架结构，更新了部分单元主题和课文，修订并增补了相关练习题。 此次修订以对比中外文化、开阔国际视野、增强文化自信、讲好中国故事为宗旨，从教学实际出发，兼顾英语的工具性和人文性，在培养英语阅读能力的同时，帮助学生通过理解、领悟、吸收、鉴赏、评价和探究等阅读活动，分析文化现象，品鉴中外文化，达到丰富思想、训练思维、培养跨文化能力的目的，从而进一步提升综合素养，提高用英文讲述中国故事的能力。

前辅文
Unit 1 Medicine
  • Exploring the Topic
  • Understanding the Text
   Text A Learning from China
   Text B Eastern and Western Approaches to Medicine
  • Improving Reading Ability
   Scanning in Reading
  • Enhancing Cultural Awareness
  • Taking a Global Perspective
  • Telling Chinese Stories
  • Assessing Your Learning
Unit 2 Clothing
  • Exploring the Topic
  • Understanding the Text
   Text A Qipao Comeback
   Text B How Jeans Became Popular in the World?
  • Improving Reading Ability
   Skimming in Reading
  • Enhancing Cultural Awareness
  • Taking a Global Perspective
  • Telling Chinese Stories
  • Assessing Your Learning
Unit 3 Food
  • Exploring the Topic
  • Understanding the Text
   Text A To the People, Food Is Heaven
   Text B What Food Says About Class in America?
  • Improving Reading Ability
   Predicting in Reading
  • Enhancing Cultural Awareness
  • Taking a Global Perspective
  • Telling Chinese Stories
  • Assessing Your Learning
Unit 4 Leisure
  • Exploring the Topic
  • Understanding the Text
   Text A How China's Long-Standing Teahouses Foster Urban Stability
   Text B The Great British Pub
  • Improving Reading Ability
   Making Inference in Reading
  • Enhancing Cultural Awareness
  • Taking a Global Perspective
  • Telling Chinese Stories
  • Assessing Your Learning
Unit 5 Humor
  • Exploring the Topic
  • Understanding the Text
   Text A The Differences in American and Chinese Humor
   Text B The Differences Between American and British Humor
  • Improving Reading Ability
   Using Contextual Clues (I): Synonyms
  • Enhancing Cultural Awareness
  • Taking a Global Perspective
  • Telling Chinese Stories
  • Assessing Your Learning
Unit 6 Entertainment
  • Exploring the Topic
  • Understanding the Text
   Text A Making Chinese Films for the Chinese
   Text B Hollywood
  • Improving Reading Ability
   Using Contextual Clues (II): Transitional Signals
  • Enhancing Cultural Awareness
  • Taking a Global Perspective
  • Telling Chinese Stories
  • Assessing Your Learning
Unit 7 Environment
  • Exploring the Topic
  • Understanding the Text
   Text A China's New Generation as Environmental Frontier
   Text B What Makes Europe Greener than the U.S.?
  • Improving Reading Ability
   Distinguishing Facts from Opinions
  • Enhancing Cultural Awareness
  • Taking a Global Perspective
  • Telling Chinese Stories
  • Assessing Your Learning
Unit 8 Architecture
  • Exploring the Topic
  • Understanding the Text
   Text A Heads Up! Roofs in Traditional Chinese Architecture
   Text B The Seven Key Characteristics of Gothic Architecture
  • Improving Reading Ability
   The Bottom-Up Model of Reading
  • Enhancing Cultural Awareness
  • Taking a Global Perspective
  • Telling Chinese Stories
  • Assessing Your Learning
Unit 9 Education
  • Exploring the Topic
  • Understanding the Text
   Text A China's Push for Education Equality
   Text B The Real Crisis in American Education: The Hardest One to Talk About
  • Improving Reading Ability
   The Top-Down Model of Reading
  • Enhancing Cultural Awareness
  • Taking a Global Perspective
  • Telling Chinese Stories
  • Assessing Your Learning
Unit 10 Philosophy
  • Exploring the Topic
  • Understanding the Text
   Text A What Can Americans Learn from Confucianism?
   Text B True Happiness: Aristotle
  • Improving Reading Ability
   The Interactive Model of Reading
  • Enhancing Cultural Awareness
  • Taking a Global Perspective
  • Telling Chinese Stories
  • Assessing Your Learning
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